Who is the Whore of Babylon?

Protestants throughout the centuries have accused the Catholic Church of being the Whore of Babylon. But the Protestants are wrong, of course, because the Catholic Church is the immaculate Bride of Christ, the one true Church He founded. What the Whore of Babylon describes, however, is a counterfeit Bride – a Counter-Catholic Church – which arises in the last days in order to deceive Catholics (the true faithful), tread upon the faith and commit spiritual fornication.

Is the Vatican II sect the Whore of Babylon Prophesied in the Apocalypse?

By Brother Peter Dimond and Brother Michael Dimond of Most Holy Family Monastery

Apocalypse
17:4- "And the woman was clothed round about with purple and
scarlet, and gilt with gold, and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and
filthiness of her fornication."

None
of the points which follow are necessary to prove that the Vatican II
sect and its antipopes are not Catholic. The doctrinal evidence
covered throughout this book proves this in detail. However, the
points which follow are interesting and enlightening as they help to
further explain why this catastrophic crisis is occurring, and what
to make of it.

Apocalypse
17:1: "And there came one of the seven angels, who had the seven
vials, and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will show thee the
condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters..."

Chapters
17 and 18 of the Apocalypse make striking prophecies about the “great
harlot” or the “Whore of Babylon” which will arise
in the last days from the city of seven hills. Rome was constructed
on seven hills. This is why throughout history Rome has been
identified as the city of seven hills mentioned in the Apocalypse.
Based on this, Protestants throughout the centuries have accused the
Catholic Church of being the Whore of Babylon. But the Protestants
are wrong, of course, because the Catholic Church is the immaculate
Bride of Christ, the one true Church He founded. What the Whore of
Babylon describes, however, is a counterfeit Bride –
a Counter-Catholic Church – which arises in the last
days in order to deceive Catholics (the true faithful), tread upon
the faith and commit spiritual fornication.

1.
The whore sits upon many waters.

As
we saw already, the great harlot sits upon many waters. The
Apocalypse clues us in as to what these waters are.

Apocalypse
17:15- "And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest,
where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and nations, and tongues."

"Peoples,
nations, and tongues" are suggestive of global influence,
something which has influence in all ends of the earth. Immediately
Rome and the Catholic Church come to mind. The Catholic Church’s
universal mission has incorporated faithful from all peoples, nations
and tongues.

Pope
Pius XII, Fidei donum
(# 46), April 21, 1957: “Now, our
holy Mother the Church is indeed the Mother ‘of all nations, of
all peoples, as well as of individual
persons…”[1]

And
since Rome is the headquarters of the universal Church, if
Rome were taken over by an antipope who imposed a new religion, it
could then influence almost all of the peoples, nations and tongues
into its spiritual infidelity. That is why the harlot sits upon
peoples, nations and tongues. In fact, the Council of Trent
infallibly confirms our hunch – that the waters upon which the
harlot sits are connected with the almost universal expanse that a
final days, counterfeit Catholic Church would have if an
antipope or set of antipopes successfully overtook Rome – with
alarming specificity.

Pope
Pius IV, Council of Trent,
Session 22, On the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: "The holy synod
then admonishes priests that it has been prescribed by the Church to
mix water with the wine to be offered in the chalice, not only
because the belief is that Christ the Lord did so, but also because
there came from His side water together with blood, since by this
mixture the sacrament is recalled. And
since in the Apocalypse of the blessed John the peoples are called
waters [Apoc. 17:1, 15], the union of the faithful people with
Christ, their head, is represented."[2]

Notice
that the Council of Trent infallibly declares that the waters of
Apoc. 17:1,15 represent the union of the faithful people with Christ;
in other words, the Catholic Church. The great harlot sits upon
these waters! Therefore, it is of the Catholic faith that the
great harlot sits upon the Catholic Church, that is, she impedes,
obstructs, suppresses and attempts to substitute for her. This is
a perfect description of the false Church that arose with Vatican
Council II, which has successfully deceived most of the world
into thinking that it is the true Catholic Church.

Understanding
that the "waters" of the Apocalypse represent the peoples,
nations, and tongues of the Catholic Church, could be the key to
understanding other important verses in this book. (Vatican II "Catholic" Church Exposed) For example, Apoc.
18:17 talks about how the shipmasters and the mariners wept over the
destruction of the great city.

Apocalypse
18:17- "For in one hour are so great riches come to nought; and
every shipmaster, and all that sail into the lake, and mariners,
and as many as work in the sea, stood afar off, And cried, seeing
the place of her burning, saying: What city is like to this great
city?"

The
shipmasters, mariners and those that work in the sea represent those
who work with souls in the Catholic Church; that is, priests,
religious, etc. They weep over the desolation of Rome and wonder how
in such a short time she has been brought down.

2.
The whore sits upon the city of seven mountains.

Apocalypse
17:9- "And here is the understanding that hath wisdom. The seven
heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman sitteth, and
they are seven kings."

As
stated already, Rome was constructed on seven hills. Since the great
harlot sits upon the city of seven hills, the great harlot sits upon
Rome itself – the center of unity in the Catholic Church and
the home of the Roman Pontiffs.

Pope
Benedict XIV, Apostolica Constitutio
(# 4), June 26, 1749: "... the
Catholic Church is signified by the City of Rome alone,
in which the bodily presence of this Apostle [Peter] is carefully
reverenced..."[3]

Interestingly,
Rome only gives way to the great harlot in the last days –
i.e., after the Vatican II revolution (video). This is why the harlot is only
mentioned in the book of the Apocalypse. And this is why Sacred
Scripture speaks of the "fall" of Babylon.

Apocalypse
18:2- "And he cried out with a loud strong voice, saying:
Babylonthe great is fallen, is fallen; and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean
spirit, and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird."

Babylon
has historically been regarded as a code name for Rome.

1
Peter 5:13- "The Church that is in Babylon, elected
together with you, saluteth you: and so doth my son Mark."

Scripture
scholars understand that St. Peter was writing this epistle from
Rome, which he calls “Babylon.” Therefore, Rome is
Babylon and Babylon has fallen. But if it has fallen, then it once
stood strongly. And is this not true? For prior to its fall, Rome
(Babylon) was the bulwark of Catholicism and the center of
Christianity - the great city.

Apocalypse
17:18- "And the woman which thou sawest, is the great city,
which hath kingdom over the kings of the earth."

Some
may ask: "If Rome is the 'great city,' why does Apocalypse 11:8
say that the great city is the place where Our Lord was crucified,
which is Jerusalem?" The answer is that it doesn’t
actually say that:

Apoc.
11:8 - “[the two witnesses] shall lie in the street of the
great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,even where their Lord was crucified.”

Notice
that, contrary to what some have claimed, the Apocalypse doesn’t
clearly state that the two witnesses (which some believe describe
Peter and Paul) are killed in the city where Our Lord was crucified.
Notice that the passage could very well mean that the great city is
called Sodom and Egypt even where their Lord was crucified. In
other words, the great city, Rome, is referred to as “Sodom”
and “Egypt” as far away as Jerusalem (where their Lord
was crucified) because of its immoralities! This makes sense when we
consider that Rome was notorious for its corruption. Hence, this
passage doesn’t clearly prove, as some have suggested, that
Jerusalem must be the great city.

Another
consideration is that the Mystical Body of Christ is being crucified
in and from Rome at present, so in that sense it would also be
accurate to say that Rome is the place where Our Lord is crucified in
His Mystical Body.

The
great city is Rome. Historically, no other city has ruled over the
kings of the Earth as has Rome, which has a spiritual and
ecclesiastical primacy which all nations must be subject to.

Pope
Leo XII, Quod Hoc Ineunte
(# 6), May 24, 1824: "Come
therefore to this holy Jerusalem, a priestly and royal city which the
sacred seat of Peter has made the capitol of the world.
Truly it rules more widely by divine
religion than by earthly domination."[4]

And
whether the kings of the earth want to accept it or not, all human
creatures must be subject to the spiritual power of the Catholic
Church, which (when there is a true pope) is exercised from Rome.

Pope
Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam,
Nov. 18, 1302: "Now, therefore,
we declare, say, determine and pronounce that for every human
creature it is necessary for salvation to be subject to the Roman
pontiff."[5]

So
the fall of the great city is the fall of Rome from the Catholic
faith. It’s not the fall of the Catholic Church, for the
Catholic Church can exist without Rome. It can be reduced to a
remnant, just as it is predicted by Our Lord when He speaks about the
end of the world. For when the Son of man “cometh,
shall he find, think you, faith on earth?”
(Luke 18:8). Rome, on the other hand, can't exist without
Catholicism. Without it, she becomes nothing more than “the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and the
hold of every unclean and hateful bird” (Apoc. 18:2).

Our
Lady of La Salette, Sept. 19, 1846, an approved apparition of the
Catholic Church: “Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat
of the Anti-Christ.”

3.
The whore is a woman.

Apocalypse
17:6-7 -"And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered,
when I had seen her, with great admiration. And the angel said
to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the
woman, and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath the seven
heads and ten horns."

If
it is true that the Whore of Babylon is the phony Catholic Church
that began with the Vatican II revolution (as the evidence in this
book overwhelmingly shows), it would make sense that this apocalyptic
entity is described as a woman, in order to contrast her with another
woman – her antithesis – the Catholic Church.

Pope
Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam,
Nov. 18, 1302: "'One is my dove, my perfect one. One
she is of her mother, the chosen of her
that bore her' [Cant. 6:8]; which represents the one mystical body
whose head is Christ, of Christ indeed, as God."[6]

4.
The whore is a mother.

Apocalypse
17:5- "And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery;
Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications, and the
abominations of the earth."

Catholics
have always referred to the Church as their mother.

Pope
Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum
(# 16), June 29, 1896: "Let us love the Lord our God; let us
love His Church; the Lord as our Father, the
Church as our Mother."[7]

Pope
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
(# 11), Jan. 6, 1928: "For if, as they continually state,
they long to be united with Us and ours, why do they not hasten to
enter the Church, 'the Mother and
mistress of all Christ's faithful'?"[8]

Pope
Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi
(# 66), June 29, 1943: "Certainly
the loving Mother is spotless in the
Sacraments, by which she gives birth to and nourishes her children;
in the faith which she has always preserved inviolate..."[9]

In
fact, the Roman Church is specifically called the “mother and
mistress” of all the churches (i.e. all the particular churches
in communion with the universal Catholic Church).

It’s
quite obvious that the Apocalypse describes the Whore of Babylon as
the “mother of the fornications” because the Counter
Church overtakes Rome, where a true pope normally presides
over the Mother Church. Rome has become the mother fornicator
in an almost universal counterfeit Catholic Church of the last days.
And we see this in action: the apostasy and spiritual fornication of
the Counter Church starts in Rome and then spreads to all of
the local churches in the counterfeit sect. For example: the
religious indifferentism practiced in Rome is spread to the rest of
the false Church.

Thus,
as the Catholic Church is our loving Mother, the whore is the Mother
of the fornications. And as the Catholic Church is the Mother of all
Christ's faithful, the whore is the Mother of Christ's unfaithful,
that is, those who have abandoned the Church and accepted the new
Vatican II religion.

5.
The whore is clothed in purple and scarlet.

Apocalypse
17:4- "And the woman was clothed round about with purple
and scarlet, and gilt with gold, and precious stones and
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and
filthiness of her fornication."

Apocalypse
18:16- "And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was
clothed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and was gilt
with gold, and precious stones, and pearls."

This
is perhaps one of the most revealing verses in the Apocalypse. In
the Catholic Church, bishops wear purple and cardinals wear scarlet
(red)! Notice that they are clothed “round about”
(around their waists) in these colors.

“Cardinals”
(in scarlet at the top) and “bishops” (in purple at the
bottom) at the Vatican (now occupied by heretics)

By
choosing to describe the Whore of Babylon as a woman “clothed
with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet,” God is giving us a
clear indication that the whore is clothed in the colors
of the true episcopate and cardinalate. God is giving us a clear
indication that the whore is clothed in these colors because
externally she gives all the appearances of being the true Church
of Christ – she has dioceses, a hierarchy, the property of
the Church, vestments, ceremonies, "sacraments," a "pope,"
etc. – but inwardly she is a fraud. This is a perfect
description of the church of the Vatican II sect, the end-time
Counter Church, which is clothed with the colors of Catholicism (and
appears to most to be just that) but inwardly is a false apostate
religion.

6.
The whore has a golden cup in her hand.

Apocalypse
17:4- "And the woman was clothed round about with purple and
scarlet, and gilt with gold, and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and
filthiness of her fornication."

Priests
offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Catholic Church are
required to use a chalice of gold, if possible. It's no coincidence
that the whore has a golden cup in her hand. The whore, as usual, is
mimicking, acting and pretending to be the Catholic Church; but she
is not. A Catholic priest offers the golden chalice full of the
Precious Blood of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The whore
offers a cup (chalice) full of abomination and filthiness – the
invalid wine of the New Mass!

In
particular, this verse is referring to the Novus Ordo Missae
(the New Mass), which does not contain the Blood of Jesus Christ, but
an offering which is an abomination in His sight.

Apocalypse
18:6- "Render to her as she also hath rendered to you; and
double unto her double according to her works: in the cup wherein
she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her."

The
word mingle means to mix.[11] In the Catholic Mass, the Church
mingles the water with the wine in the chalice.

Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence,
Session 8, Nov. 22, 1439, "Exultate Deo": "For blessed
Alexander, the fifth Pope after blessed Peter, says: 'In the
offerings of the sacraments which are offered to the Lord within the
solemnities of Masses, let only bread and wine
mixed with water be offered as a sacrifice.
For either wine alone or water alone must not be offered in the
chalice of the Lord, but both mixed,
because it is read that both, that is, blood and water, flowed from
the side of Christ.' Then also, because
it is fitting to signify the effect of this sacrament, which is the
union of the Christian people with Christ.
For water signifies the people, according to the passage in the
Apocalypse: 'the many waters... are many people' [Apoc. 17:15]...
Therefore, when
wine and water are mixed in the
chalice the people are made one with Christ, and the multitude of the
faithful is joined and connected with Him in whom it believes."[12]

The
symbolism of Apocalypse 18:6 – mingling in a cup –
couldn’t be more obvious without giving away the mystery of the
verse. It's an obvious reference to the Mass, which has been
completely perverted by the harlot. She has nothing left to offer to
God in her cup but filthiness and abomination (Apoc. 17:4).
Furthermore, this verse (18:6) points to a specific point in the
Mass, the mixing of wine and water. This action of mixing signifies
the union of the Christian people with Christ (the Catholic Church),
as Pope Eugene IV defined at the Council of Florence. As we have
shown, this is the precise signification which has been removed from
the consecration of the New Mass, rendering it invalid!

In
one and the same verse, therefore, God is revealing that the whore is
conducting massive spiritual fornication in areas which regard the
Catholic Mass and the Catholic Church as a whole. It is a startling
description of the Vatican II sect: the end-time Counter-Church.

7.
The whore is characterized by fornication and whoredom.

Apocalypse
17:1-2- "Come, I will show thee the condemnation of the great
harlot, who sitteth upon many waters, With whom the kings of the
earth have committed fornication; and they who inhabit the
earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom."

Apocalypse
18:3- "Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her; and the merchants of the earth
have been made rich by the power of her delicacies."

It’s
simply a fact that when the term fornication is used in Holy
Scripture, many times it describes idolatry and spiritual infidelity.

Exodus
34:16- “Neither shalt thou take of their daughters to wife for
thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they
make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.”

Judges
2:17- “Committing fornication with strange gods, and
adoring them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers
had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord, they did all
things contrary.”

Many
other passages could be given to show that Scripture describes
spiritual infidelity and idolatry as fornication, whoredom and
harlotry. When a “great harlot” committing world-wide
fornication is spoken of in this context, it clearly indicates
apostasy from the one true Faith. As we have proven in this video,
apostasy from the one true Faith and an acceptance of false
gods/idolatrous religions is exactly what most characterizes the
Vatican II Counter Church and the Vatican II apostasy. It has put the
demonic “gods” of the pantheon of world religions on a
par with the true God of the Catholic Church.

This
fornication which begins from apostate Rome and its antipopes (above)
has been spread and imbibed all over the Earth (below), as we’ve
shown.

The
Whore of Babylon is guilty of spiritual fornication to such an extent
that this is the action which characterizes her title - the "great
harlot." By such a description, God is directly contrasting the
whore with the Catholic Church; for the Church is a woman who is
characterized by her unwavering fidelity to her Spouse, Jesus Christ.

Pope
Pius XI, Mortalium Animos
(# 10), Jan. 6, 1928: "During the lapse of centuries, the
mystical Spouse of Christ has never been contaminated, nor can she
ever in the future be contaminated, as Cyprian bears witness: 'The
Bride of Christ cannot be made false to her Spouse:
she is incorrupt and modest. She knows
but one dwelling, she guards the sanctity of the nuptial chamber
chastely and modestly.'"[13]

So
just as the whore is notorious for her impurity, the Catholic Church
is known for her chastity.

Pope
St. Siricius, epistle (1) Directa ad
decessorem to Himerius, Feb. 10, 385:
"And so He has wished the beauty of the Church, whose spouse He
is, to radiate with the splendor of
chastity, so that on the day of
judgment, when He will have come again, He
may be able to find her without spot or wrinkle
[Eph. 5:27] as He instituted her through His apostle."[14]

The
Church is "the immaculate Bride of Christ." The "great
harlot" represents nothing but the greatest mockery of the
immaculate Bride of Christ in history.

Pope
Hadrian I, Second Council of Nicaea,
787: "...Christ our God, when He
took for His BrideHis
Holy Catholic Church, having no blemish or wrinkle,promised he would guard her and assured
His holy disciples saying, I am with you every day until the
consummation of the world."[15]

8.
The whore has separated from her Spouse.

Apocalypse
18:7- "As much as she hath glorified herself, and lived in
delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her; because she
saith in her heart: I sit a queen, and am no widow; and sorrow I
shall not see."

In
another amazing verse, the Apocalypse tells us that the whore says to
herself, “I sit a queen and am no widow.” She isn't a
widow because her (former) Spouse is not dead.

Apocalypse
1:17-18- "And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead.
And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First
and the Last, And alive, and was dead, and behold I am living
forever and ever, and have the keys of death and of hell."

The
Church’s Spouse is Jesus Christ. The whore, being a
counterfeit Church that has broken from the Catholic Church,
therefore had Jesus Christ as her Spouse until she separated herself
from Jesus Christ by leaving His traditions and teachings. Instead of
being a faithful spouse, the whore has become her own queen, who is
happy imposing on others her own will and glory, her own teachings
and religion.

But
whereas the whore has separated herself from the Catholic Church by
forming a religion and a “Church” of her own, the Bride
of Christ – the Catholic Church – always maintains union
with Her Spouse, even if most of the world has left her to join the
whore.

Pope
Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi
(# 89), June 29, 1943: "This opinion is false; for the
divine Redeemer is most closely united not only with His Church,
which is His beloved Spouse, but also
with each and every one of the faithful, and He ardently desires to
speak with them heart to heart, especially after Holy Communion."[16]

9.
The light of the lamp shall shine no more in the whore.

Apocalypse
18:23- "And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all
in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard
no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of
the earth, for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments."

The
"light of the lamp" is a reference to the sanctuary lamp
found in Catholic churches. This lamp signifies Christ's real
presence in the Eucharist. This lamp can hardly be found in
Vatican II churches. In most cases, it has been moved to the side or
to the back of the church. But more than the displacement of the
sanctuary lamp, Apocalypse 18:23 is indicating that Christ's real
presence (the valid Eucharist) is no longer found in the Vatican II
Church.

"The
voice of the bridegroom and the bride" in Apocalypse 18:23 is a
reference to Christ and His Church.

Pope
Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi
(# 86), June 29, 1943: "… he
[St. Paul] brings Christ and His Mystical Body into a wonderfully
intimate union, he nevertheless distinguishes one from the other as
Bridegroom and Bride (Eph.
5:22-23)."[17]

If
there were any doubt about who the Bridegroom and the Bride are, Pope
Pius XII obliterates it by quoting St. Paul. Jesus Christ is the
Bridegroom, and His Mystical Body, the Church, is His immaculate
Bride. When the Apocalypse makes reference to the voice of the
Bridegroom and the Bride, it’s another confirmation that the
Whore of Babylon is the Vatican II sect – the Counter Church,
which has abandoned the teaching (or voice) of the Bridegroom (Jesus
Christ) and of the Bride (His Church).

10.
The voice of the pipe is no longer heard in the whore.

Apocalypse
18:22- "And the voice of harpers, and of musicians, and of
them that play on the pipe, and on the trumpet, shall no more be
heard at all in thee..."

Few
people today know that "trumpets and harps were the standard
instruments for liturgical music in St. John's day, as organs are
today in the west."[18] By including the three primary
instruments of Catholic liturgical music throughout history, St. John
is warning us that traditional Catholic liturgical music as a whole
will "no more be heard at all" in the whore. And hasn't
this come true?

We’ve
already shown that since Vatican II, Gregorian chant, our beautiful
musical tradition, has been replaced by every type of secular music
and instrument under the sun.

It's
so bad now that one could enter a modern "Catholic" Church
and hear anything from boisterous drums to electric guitars. One
could walk into one of these churches and even be subjected to rock
music. Yet, what's perhaps most disappointing about all of this is
that most people don't realize that these modern "Catholic"
churches aren't Catholic at all, but belong entirely to the Whore of
Babylon.

11.
All the world is drunk with the wine of her whoredom.

Apocalypse
18:3- "Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her."

Apocalypse
14:8- "And another angel followed, saying: That great Babylon is
fallen, is fallen; which made all nations drink of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication."

Apocalypse
16:19- "And great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to
give her the cup of the wine of the indignation of His wrath."

Apocalypse
17:1-2- "Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great
harlot, who sitteth upon many waters. With whom the kings of the
earth have committed fornication; and they who inhabit the earth,
have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom."

The
Whore of Babylon is condemned repeatedly for fornication having to do
with wine. Why? As we’ve shown, it’s the change to the
wine portion of the consecration that renders the New Mass invalid!

Pope
St. Pius V, De Defectibus, chapter 5: "The words of
Consecration, which are the form of this Sacrament, are these: For
this is my Body. And: For this is the Chalice of my Blood, of
the new and eternal testament: the mystery of faith, which shall be
shed for you and for many unto the remission of sins. Now if
one were to remove, or change anything in the form of the
consecration of the Body and Blood, and in that very change of words
the [new] wording would fail to mean the same thing, he would not
consecrate the Sacrament."

The
reason that the whore is condemned for wine violations is because
invalidating changes have been made to the WINE PORTION of the words
of consecration in the New Mass. See the earlier section on the
New Mass for the full discussion. These changes to the wine portion
of the consecration invalidate both consecrations. The Vatican II
Church has truly "made all nations drinkof the wine
of the wrath of her fornication" (Apoc. 14:8).

12.
The whore is drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs.

Pope
Leo XIII, Au milieu des sollicitudes
(#11), Feb. 16, 1892: “[Many times]… Christians,
by the mere fact of their being such, and for no other reason, were
forced to choose between apostasy and martyrdom,
being allowed no alternative.”[19]

Apocalypse
17:6- "And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I
wondered when I had seen her, with great admiration."

Apocalypse
18:24- "And in her was found the blood of prophets and of
saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."

The
whore can be said to be drunk with the blood of the saints on many
levels. The first that comes to mind is ecumenism as it is practiced
by the Vatican II sect. Prior to Vatican II, ecumenism referred to
the apostolic endeavor to convert the world to Catholicism. Today, it
refers to the effort to bring all religions together as one without
conversion, while respecting all religions as essentially equal.

Pope
Leo XIII, Custodi Di Quella Fede
(# 15), Dec. 8, 1892: "Every
familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines
who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who
hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect
for all religions, and the craving
to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution.
These men seek to reconcile Christ and
Belial, the Church of God and the state
without God."[20]

Ecumenism
goes directly against the divinely revealed truth that the gods of
the non-Catholic religions are devils (Psalm 95:5; 1 Cor. 10:20), and
it puts Christ on a level with Lucifer. Throughout this book we’ve
exposed the false ecumenism of the Vatican II sect. The Vatican II
sect considers false religions more or less good and praiseworthy.
Thus, it blasphemes the memory of the saints and martyrs whose flesh
was torn with iron hooks, bodies were fed to the lions, and heads
were chopped off because they refused to compromise their faith one
iota or say that “all religions are more or less good and
praiseworthy.” It also mocks all the sacrifices of all the
saints who gave up their lives for the priesthood, for religious
life, for missionary work. All of it was unnecessary, according to
the Vatican II sect.

Pope
St. Gregory the Great: "The holy
universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly
except in herand
asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved."[21]

Because
Margaret Clitherow refused to accept the Anglican sect and its “Mass”
– but rather invited Catholic priests into her home against the
penal laws – she was martyred by being crushed to death under a
large door loaded with heavy weights. This style of execution is so
painful that it is called “severe and harsh punishment.”
She suffered it all because she wouldn’t accept Anglicanism.
The Vatican II sect, however, teaches that Anglicans are fellow
“Christians” who don’t need conversion, and whose
invalid “bishops” are actually true bishops of the Church
of Christ. The Vatican II sect teaches that her martyrdom was
pointless. It is thus drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs.

How
many martyrs, such as St. Thomas More, gave their lives for one
article of the Catholic faith? Ecumenism renders their blood-shedding
acts worthless, pointless and meaningless.

Pope
Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum
(# 8), June 29, 1896: "It was thus the duty of all who heard
Jesus Christ, if they wished for eternal salvation, not merely to
accept His doctrine as a whole, but to
assent with their entire mind to all and every point of it, since it
is unlawful to withhold faith from God even in regard to one single
point."[22]

This
is why the Vatican II Church is said to be drunk with the blood of
martyrs and of saints (Apoc. 17:6; 18:24), and all those who support
this antichrist activity now headed by Benedict XVI are drunk as
well.

What’s
also fascinating is that the Apocalypse mentions that the martyrs
cried out from under the altar.

Apocalypse
6:9- “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under
the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and
for the testimony which they held. And they cried out with a loud
voice, saying: How long, O Lord (holy and true) dost thou
not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth?”

It
is prescribed that Catholic Mass is to be said on altars which
contain the relics of martyrs! Thus, it makes perfect sense that
the martyrs, whose lives are being mocked by the Vatican II sect’s
ecumenism and endorsement of false religions, are crying out from
“under the altar”! They are crying out not only at the
interreligious ecumenism which mocks their lives, but also at the
liturgical abominations which occur directly over their relics in the
New Mass. This striking point from Scripture should also show
Protestants that the Catholic Church is the one true Church.

It's
quite obvious, in our opinion, that the Vatican II sect is the Whore
of Babylon prophesied in Scripture. And contrary to what the
Protestant heretics believe, the fact that ecclesiastical Rome's
apostasy from the Catholic faith in the last days is predicted in
Scripture proves rather than disproves the authenticity of the
Catholic Church. For the tribulation of the last days will be one
which focuses on deceiving the true faithful, and undermining the
true Faith.

Apocalypse
11:2- "But the court, which is without the temple, cast out, and
measure it not: because it is given unto the Gentiles, and the
holy city they shall tread under foot two and forty months."

It
should be noted that "two and forty months" (Apoc. 11:2),
"a thousand two hundred and sixty days" (Apoc. 12:6), and
"a time, and times, and half a time" (Apoc. 12:14) and 3
and 1/2 years are regarded by some scholars as symbolic of any period
of persecution.

Luke
21:34-35- "And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts
be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this
life, and that day come upon you suddenly. For as a snare it shall
come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth."

A
snare is a device used to catch animals. Now, if the snare of the
last days involves a counterfeit Catholic Church set up from Rome,
and a spiritual invasion of the holy city (Rome), then the "animal"
that the devil is trying to catch is Traditional Catholicism. This is
another proof that the Catholic religion is the one and only true
religion.

It
is our hope that this scriptural evidence against the Vatican II
Church will strengthen Catholics in their opposition to it. The
biblical prophecies which pinpoint our present situation also enable
Catholics to have a better understanding of how God views the
developments and events of the last 50 or so years.

But
most of all, the Apocalypse uncovers the false resistance to this
apostasy, even among the so-called traditionalists, who advocate a
position in reference to this harlot church which demands that they
remain united to its antipopes and the Vatican II sect. Such a false
"We resist you..." places them right in the very bosom and
womb of the harlot. By their own profession, they are still
obstinately united to the "mother of the fornications."
They still confuse the great harlot with the immaculate Bride of
Christ. They still taint a pure and unsullied resistance to the
harlot by sticking themselves in the midst of her abominable
dominion.

Apocalypse
18:4-5- "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go
out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her
sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. For her sins have
reached unto heaven, and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities."

If
they don’t completely break with the great harlot, these people
will lose their souls in the eternal fire for blaspheming the Church
of Christ the King, which has no fellowship with the works of
darkness, no part with the unbeliever, and no concord with the woman
of iniquity. Though much of the world has been engulfed by the great
harlot, the immaculate Bride of Our Lord still exists in all her
purity, though she has been reduced to a remnant and forced
underground. This woman, the remnant Catholic Church in the last
days, is described in chapter 12 of the Apocalypse after the vision
of the woman clothed with the sun, Our Lady of Fatima.

Apocalypse
12:6- "And the womanfled into the wilderness,
where she had a place prepared by God, that there they should feed
her a thousand two hundred and sixty days."

Apocalypse
12:14- "And there were given tothe womantwo wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert
unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half
a time, from the face of the serpent."

If
we have not joined already, we must enter this remnant Catholic
Church in the wilderness. We must maintain "the faith once
delivered to the saints" (Jude 1:3), and come closer to God by
receiving the true sacraments, and practicing devotion to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary and the holy rosary.

Apocalypse
12:17- "And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to
make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God,
and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."

Apocalypse
12:12- "Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the
commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

The
Truth about What Really Happened to the Catholic Church
after Vatican II

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